Terrorism has definitely emerged as the scourge of the new millennium. With the states originally concentrating solely on conventional notions off security, the various aspects of non-traditional modes of security concerns had virtually remained on the fringes. However, with the end of the Cold War, there have been innumerable instances of armed conflicts, civil wars and violent secessionist movements creating disasters. And nowhere has this violence been more apparent than in the realms of national and international terrorism. Today, terrorism in all its conventional and non-conventional forms has gradually emerged as the most pervasive danger of the 21^st century, crossing all spatio-temporal constraints.

Household saving plays a crucial role in domestic capital formation but in the country like India only a small part of this saving can be channelized to the capital market. Mutual fund emerged as an important vehicle through which household saving can easily enter into the capital market. The small investors are not expert to take direct investment decision in equities because of number of reasons and thus have the option to invest in mutual fund. Today, a number of schemes are offered by many institutions that meet the diversified need of the investor but the legitimate question is the choice criteria of fund that outperforms others. The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance of equity oriented mutual fund schemes based on risk return relationship models and measures.

Borders, in this study, will not be commented on from afar. For people who live on the borders, it is a landscape marker which could be borne away but defiantly exists. And it happens to be accepted with an equal, if counter-directive amount of defiance. Partition works predominantly as irony, an imposed metaphor whose coordinates need to be analyzed even before fiction may grant its voice to it, and at times subsume it into a propaganda narrative. The propaganda narrative afflicting borders is a narrative of divisive boundaries or nostalgic remembrances; exile or utopia; they or us. While Kashmir continues to survive the plague of touristic references and media-mongering; Ireland lives in the haunting backdrop of the Troubles which ensued from 1968 after the Irish Republican Army refused to reconcile to the partition of Ireland.  This study is an attempt to trace the representational geography of continual cross-currents and interjections in the borderland story, to probe the metaphor of conflict and conflict-resolution in Kashmir and the imperatives of the soft-hard border in Ireland post-Brexit.

The problem of the relation between religion and morality has been a matter of controversy amongst philosophers and theologians from the earliest times. It is as much alive today as it ever was and continues to be a subject of debate. In this context, mainly two divergent views are found regarding the relationship between the two. According to some, there is no close relationship between them. People can lead a highly moral life without having faith in any Supreme Reality. On the other hand, there are some thinkers who hold that there is a connection between morality and religion in true sense. The ultimate result which people get by doing moral actions is the spiritual perfection and religion also finds expression in morality. None can find a single example of religion in which morality has not been preached. In the present endeavour, I would like to discuss Swami Vivekananda’s contribution to the problem of religion and morality.

যথার্থ দর্শনকে তার বিষয়বস্তু এবং তার পদ্ধতির মধ্যেই পেতে হয়। দর্শনকে যদি কেবল একটি মাত্র পদ্ধতির মাধ্যমে সংজ্ঞায়িত করা হয় তাহলে বিভিন্ন সমস্যার সম্মুখীন হতে হয়। এই কারণে দার্শনিকগণ তত্ত্ব অনুসন্ধানের ক্ষেত্রে বিভিন্ন প্রকার পদ্ধতির আশ্রয় নিয়েছেন। সবগুলি ব্যাখ্যা করা অত্যন্ত দীর্ঘ একটি প্রক্রিয়া। এই প্রবন্ধে আমি ভারতীয় দর্শনে উপনিষদ ও উপনিষদ-পরবর্তী কিছু দার্শনিক পদ্ধতি নিয়ে আলোচনা করব।